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provide an evolutionary underpinning for in-group altruism combined with spiteful behavior towards members of the rival out … increase in in-group altruism can be balanced by a decrease in spiteful behavior towards the out-group. …
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economic values, because economists are not fully able to explain empathy, altruism, and helpful behaviour using traditional …, we decided to conduct smaller pre-research probes into people’s attitudes towards altruism, philanthropy, and giving …
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This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we … develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have feelings of altruism or spite toward each other … that altruism undermines the credibility of a threat of dis- missal but strengthens the credibility of a bonus. Among …
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have a long-evolved and biologically-inherited basis. The social role of morality and its difference with altruism is …
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one-for-one and will reduce the total risk coverage. Furthermore, the existence of a moderate degree of altruism …
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treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …
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Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables...
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The theory of reciprocity is predicated on the assumption that people are willing to reward nice or kind acts and to punish unkind ones. This assumption raises the question as to how to define kindness. In this paper we offer a new definition of kindness that we call blame-freeness." Put most...
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In the research addressing the prisoner's dilemma game, the effectiveness and accountableness of the method allowing for the emergence of cooperation is generally discussed. The most well-known solutions for this question are memory based iteration, the tag used to distinguish between defector...
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The paper studies the impact of altruism on Agent’s motivation in the career concerns model. The paper shows the new …: extrinsic incentives can be lessened for the intrinsically motivated agent. The analysis shows that altruism can decrease effort … result is the distinction between current and anticipated altruism. The paper also studies the effect of altruism on wage …
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